Boone Pickens Gets On His Horse

Boone Pickens today on CNBC announced that he is kicking off his personally-funded, non-partisan media platform to address the energy crisis.

Pickens has been been betting on wind power of late so that will certainly be in the mix. Citing the U.S.'s precarious dependence on foreign oil, his initial media buy has been in the neighborhood of $10 million. It has been true that Americans will not be jawboned into conserving anything.

Does the average American know that oil demand has been growing more quickly than oil supply for years? Do they care? Would that have changed anything?

Pickens seems to be in favor of drilling everywhere viable in the U.S., and aggressively increasing the use of wind, solar and nuclear domestically.

Lots of people want "someone" to do "something" as long as the someone is not them and the something doesn't happen anywhere pretty or near their houses, beaches or schools.